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How to Win the Internethttps://samjournalist22.wordpress.com/2016/04/12/how-to-win-the-internet/
https://samjournalist22.wordpress.com/2016/04/12/how-to-win-the-internet/#respondTue, 12 Apr 2016 22:07:43 +0000http://samjournalist22.wordpress.com/?p=53Read more "How to Win the Internet"]]>Liz Heron does a great job at pointing out that there has been a switch in how we are given our news in her video How to Win the Internet. She was once found in a situation where she was the only one with really important news and it took her a couple of hours to make sure the story was correct for her to send out the story. This, however, is not how we get news now.

We used to get our news through the “old news cycle,” according to Heron. This meant that one person would be delivering the news to many other people. The story was very linear and it was defined by “gatekeepers”, a smaller group of people who deliver news for their profession.

We now use the “internet news cycle,” according to Heron. This means that news has now become participatory, which means that everyone has the power to “report and distribute news.” It is also nonlinear and is defined by people from all over, not just people whose job it is find and report news.

Heron stresses the idea of “democratization,” meaning that everyone has the power to rely news onto others now. Although this information may be false, it is still allowed to be circulated through the Internet. It is, however, the job of the reporters and journalists to try and stray people away from all of this false information and inform people of ways to avoid this problem.

Journalists can use social media in many ways, like contacting sources. According to Amanda Eldridge, social media can “provide journalists with a vehicle of self-promotion.”According to the Washington Post, journalists can use social media for “finding ideas for stories and staying in touch with audiences.”

Social media can cause many ethical issues in newsgathering. There is always a chance that the information is not true, which lowers the credibility of the publisher and relays incorrect information to the public. Some people may use other peoples’ information if they do not properly give them credit. Also, since everyone can report news, the correct information may be overshadowed by false news.

Liz Heron was right when she says that there has been a change in how we get our news. Since there was a change, we have to do everything we can to make sure that the right news is being relayed to the people.

]]>https://samjournalist22.wordpress.com/2016/04/12/how-to-win-the-internet/feed/0samjournalist22Shattered Glasshttps://samjournalist22.wordpress.com/2016/04/05/shattered-glass/
https://samjournalist22.wordpress.com/2016/04/05/shattered-glass/#respondTue, 05 Apr 2016 22:17:05 +0000http://samjournalist22.wordpress.com/?p=29Read more "Shattered Glass"]]>The movie Shattered Glass highlights big mistakes that journalists and other members of a paper can make. By making these mistakes, they are seriously hurting the journalism profession. Readers depend on journalists to provide them with correct information and when that trust is broken, there is a problem. I have picked out three lessons that I have learned from this movie.

For example, the fabrication of facts, such as people and places, is the worst thing that you can do. According to Merriam- Webster, the job of a fact checker is to “to verify the factual accuracy of.” As a journalist, you are expected to write a story that is factual in every way for people to read. If a journalist fails to do this, they are misinforming the public and failing in the profession.

Another example has to do with the fact checkers. No matter how personable or reliable someone seems to be, that does not mean that they will print stories that are factual. They should keep their personal lives separate from their professional lives because if they don’t, they will miss facts and be a huge reason why the false story was published. They must focus on their job at hand and disregard any personal feelings towards someone.

The last lesson I learned was that it is not enough to just apologize for your actions. You must take responsibility for them as well. As a journalist, you are supposed to rely correct information to the public. It is not enough to apologize when you have delivered wrong information to a lot of people.

Fabrication and plagiarism can cause major repercussions to journalism as a whole. According to Dictionary.com, plagiarism is the act of taking ideas someone else’s work without their permission.By having journalists fabricate false stories, they are putting the company at a huge risk. They are risking peoples’ jobs and even the existence of the company all together. If the public reads a story and assumes that it is correct, they will be very angry if they find out that in fact, it is false. This will make them very skeptical of all future stories that they will read and make journalism look like a joke. As said by Steve Butry,”Scandals in newsrooms large and small have forced news organizations to apply the same skepticism to some staff members that they do to the institutions they cover.” They will not take journalism seriously anymore and for that, the profession will suffer.

]]>https://samjournalist22.wordpress.com/2016/04/05/shattered-glass/feed/0samjournalist22Spotlight Character Michael Rezendeshttps://samjournalist22.wordpress.com/2016/03/22/spotlight-character-michael-rezendes/
https://samjournalist22.wordpress.com/2016/03/22/spotlight-character-michael-rezendes/#respondTue, 22 Mar 2016 22:10:18 +0000http://samjournalist22.wordpress.com/?p=2Read more "Spotlight Character Michael Rezendes"]]>In the movie Spotlight, character Michael Rezendes, played by Mark Ruffalo, portrayed exemplary journalistic qualities. Rezendes was very knowledgable in his field of work and made sure that this case was his top priority. Rezendes was a dedicated investigative journalist and because of this, was successful in helping to reveal a lot of information in the case.

One example of why Rezendes was a good journalist is because he asked the victims if he could record their conversations before talking to them and respected them if their answer was no. He also did not push the victims into revealing their names in the story as well. For example, he spoke with one male victim and at first the male did not want to reveal his name, but as the interview concluded, he changed his mind because he felt comfortable and wanted to prevent the corruption in the church from happening to other children. Rezendes also had a conversation with Mitchell Garabedian towards the end of the film and Garabedian told Rezendes important information that was “off the record”. Rezendes respected his request and was able to use the information to help uncover more about the case.

Rezendes was a character that showed dedication and persistence in the case. When people did not wish to speak with him, he would form relationships with them first to gain their trust, as seen in the relationship with him and Garabedian. When he knew that there were documents that were made available to the public, he waited all night until someone opened the office the next morning to view the documents. When Garabedian was too busy to speak with him, Rezendes walked in the room and spoke with him anyway because he knew that Garabedian would be a useful source of information.

Rezendes believed that it was morally wrong to not release the little information that they had to the public because he believed that they had the right to know what was going on. Rezendes had spent so much time and effort on the case that he wanted to release the information that they already found, without waiting for the whole story.

Rezendes gradually felt a strong connection towards the case against the Church. He was disgusted at the level of corruption in the Church, which made him work even harder to find more guilty priests involved in the case. Michael Rezendes showed valuable qualities that a successful journalist should have and showed me that some journalists really do value getting the most important information to the public.